Kellar is perfectly well acquainted with this matter,
he has moved a house on one of the lots, and on the other he has lately built
another house, which he rents out, and holds possession -- in defiance of me,
as I am possessed of no power of attorney to warrant any proceeding
against him." A power of attorney was at once sent Habersham,
with instructions to evict the intruder, and rent, lease or sell the property.
A suit against the trespasser was won in 1794, but in 1801
his tenant was still in possession, poor, and refusing to pay rent.
Habersham had meanwhile died, and John Gebhard Cunow,
acting as attorney for Von Schweinitz, who had returned to Germany in 1798,
requested Matthew McAllister to take charge of the matter; but McAllister,
having made some inquiries, reported that the man named John Robinson,
who lived on the premises, was likely to make trouble,
and that as he himself was the only Judge in the district
it would be better to put the case into the hands of some one else,
and leave him free to hear it. Cunow therefore asked George Woodruff
to act as attorney, to which he agreed, requesting that John Lawson
be associated with him, which was done the following year.
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